If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.